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Louis Charles Karpinski, Historian of Mathematics View metadata, citation and similar papers at core.ac.uk brought to you by CORE provided by Elsevier - Publisher Connector HISTORIA MATHEMATICA 3 (1976), 185-202 LOUIS CHARLESKARPINSKI, HISTORIAN OF MATHEMATICSAND CARTOGRAPHY BY PHILLIP S, JONES, THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN Summary Louis C. Karpinski was best known for his publica- tions on the history of mathematics, and secondarily as a historian of cartography. This survey of his life includes an account of his contributions to the teaching of mathematics and of his avocational interests as a collector, chess player, and gadfly attacking what he saw as poor thinking and abuses of power in both the univer- sities and in the public domain. It is followed by a note on archives, a list of the Ph.D. theses he supervised, and a complete bibliography. 1. EARLY LIFE AND EDUCATION Louis C. Karpinski was born August Sth, 1878 in Rochester New York, and died in Winter Haven, Florida on January ZSth, 1956. Both of his parents had come to this country asimmi- grants. Henry H. Karpinski had come from Warsaw, Poland via England at the age of 19. Louis' mother, Mary Louise Engesser, had emigrated from Gebweiler in Alsace. Henry Karpinski left his position with the Eastman Company in Rochester to take his family to Oswego, New York where he set up a cleaning and dye- ing business which was later continued by his older son, Henry. In 1894, Louis Karpinski graduated from high school in Oswego in the English and German curriculum. He received a Teacher's Diploma from Oswego State Normal School in 1897, and he began his teaching career, at the age of nineteen, in the schools of Southold, Long Island. In January 1898, he went to teach in the normal department of Berea College in Kentucky. In 1899, Karpinski entered Cornell University where he played championship chess, having earlier won a state champion- ship in 1896, and won honors in public speaking. The title of the oration for which he won a gold medal in the Cornell University Woodford Prize Contest of 1901 was "The Southern Mountaineer". This reflects his experience in Berea as well as a life-long concern for people and social-economic problems. In this same year he also earned both money and experience teaching in the private Cascadilla School in Ithaca. Louis Karpinski completed his A.B. at Cornell in 1901 and in the same year enrolled in the American College of the Kaiser 186 P. S. Jones HM 3 Wilhelms-Llniversitzt zu Strassburg. In 1903, he was awarded the degree Dr. Phil. Nat. after submitting a number theoretic thesis (1) (parenthetical numbers refer to the appended bibliography, bracketed numbers to the notes) to a committee chaired by Heinrich Weber and including Theodore Reye and F. Braun. 2. WORK AND DEVELOPING INTERESTS His occupations for the next few years reflect Karpinski’s continuing interest in teaching and his somewhat tense, vigorous activity. In 1903-1904, he wasincharge of physics and chemis- try at Oswego State Normal College and of arithmetic in its practice school. Summers, he taught at New York University (1904) and the Chatauqua Institution at Chatauqua, New York (1905-1907). In 1904, he had accepted a position as instructor in mathematics at the University of Michigan, and in 1905 he married Grace Woods. He had met her at Cornell University where she had enrolled on a scholarship in 1899. The daughter of a county school superintendent in Lockport, New York, she taught physics, chemistry, Greek and Latin at a school in New Jersey for a year after graduating from Cornell in 1904. The Karpinskis had six children, Robert Whitcomb, Mary, Loui se, Ruth, Joseph Louis and Charles Elwin. They were active in community affairs and belonged to the Congregational church. Louis taught a publicly advertised bible class, “Studies in the Acts and Epistles” as one of the McMillan Hall Association Study courses, and served as the piano accompanist for choral groups on the strength of the year of lessons which he had received at the age of sixteen. He also gave a lecture on the history of arithmetic as a part of the University’s summer program of lectures and entertainment. In 1906, 1907, and 1908 he returned to New York State to lecture in the teachers’ institutes which were commonly sched- uled at the beginning of school each fall. 3. DEVELOPMENTAS A HISTORIAN In spite of the fact that at various times Louis had anemia, diabetes, and heart trouble, he was always active pro- fessionally as well as in church, community, and political affairs. In the University he progressed to a full professor- ship in 1919, and to professor emeritus upon his retirement in 1948. However, his professional career was strongly redirected by the year which he spent (1909-1910) as a Teachers College Fellow and Extension Lecturer at Teachers College, Columbia University. He had been encouraged in historical interests by his department chairman, W. W. Beman, who himself had written historical papers as well as secondary school texts. Interest in the history of mathematics at the University of Michigan was further heightened by the presence of Alexander Ziwet (81)) Chairman of the Department of Mathematics of the College of HM3 Louis Charles Karpinski 187 Engineering. Ziwet, who also was trained abroad, had a wide interest in mathematical literature, a large and fine personal library, which he eventually gave to the University (64), and had also published historical articles. However, the most direct influence on Karpinski was that of David Eugene Smith with whom he worked at Teachers College. Although they were later rivals in a friendly sense, at least so far as Karpinski was concerned, their joint publication The Hindu Arabic Numerals (12) was Karpinski’s first book and is still one of the basic references on this subject. 4. KARPINSKI AS A BIBLIOGRAPHER The rivalry with David Eugene Smith and Columbia University, at least in the mind of Karpinski, developed after he returned to the University of Michigan and began to build there a collec- tion of source materials in the history of mathematics. He did this by badgering librarians and alumni for funds as he scanned book catalogues and traveled to visit dealers and auctions. In later years he would say,“1 always said Michigan had the better collection - even when it didn’t”. This statement was made especially with respect to Columbia’s collection which later became the Smith-Plimpton Collection, when two bibliophiles gave their private collections to Columbia University. However, he was also aware of the collection at Brown University built up through the efforts of R. C. Archibald. It is hard to know which was his more basic urge, that of the collector, or that of the competitor. In either case, he competed as a collector to the advantage of the University of Michigan and of the history of mathematics and cartography. Professor Karpinski’s scholarly contributions as a bibli- ographer were a natural concomitant of his collecting urge. His Bibliography of Mathematical works Printed in America through 1850 (110) with the several supplements published in Scripta Mathematics (111, 113, 118) is commonly cited merely as “Karpinski” by dealers in Americana, and has been a basic refer- ence for studies of the early history of mathematics in America. He also published bibliographies of early algebraic (112) and trigonometric (114) works. This interest appears also in his cartographic work, where his Bibliography of the Printed Maps of Michigan, 1804-1880 (130) is still authoritative. Bibliographies are, of course, essential to scholarly work, particularly to historical work. They become tools for future scholars and are themselves a scholarly product, not merely appendages to papers. Karpinski’s influence and indirect products are also to be observed in the theses of his students [1], some of which inc- luded bibliographies as essential parts of the body of their research. Items 69, 71, 73, 74, 101 and 116 of the list of his publications show his interest in early American arithmetic. Items 121, 126, 128 are bibliographies relating to cartography, 188 P. S. Jones HM 3 and 158 deals with early military publications. This latter was done in collaboration with Colonel Thomas M. Spaulding, who also gave the University of Michigan many rare mathematical works. 5. RESEARCH IN THE HISTORY OF MATHEMATICS Returning to Louis Karpinski's major interest in the history of mathematics, we find his initial work with the Hindu Arabic numerals being extended to include early European algor- isms (13, 21, 22, 31, 59, 79, 82, 83, 89, 100, 103) and algebraic manuscripts (14, 15, 20, 23, 24, 32, 41, 83). The often-cited book Robert of Chester's Latin Translation of the Algebra of Al-Khowarizmi (41) was the culmination of his work in the latter area. It also typifies his interest in orig- inal sources and manuscripts, which was served by trips to European libraries and depositories. A survey of his publications on algorisms also suggests the fruitfulness of his contacts with historians and scholars in other fields. These were sometimes represented by joint pub- lications and sometimes by acknowledgements, prefaces, or addenda in articles listed under other names. In addition to David Eugene Smith and Thomas Spaulding we can list Karpinski's son-in-law, Charles N. Staubach (loo), and E. G. R. Waters (79), a romance language specialist at Oxford, with both of whom he worked on algorisms, and his colleagues Martin Luther D'Ooge and Frank Egleston Robbins of the Greek Department with whom he shared in the production of a translation and commentary on Nichomachus of Gerasa's Introduction to Arithmetic (75).
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